News & Analysis In the Agencies Volume 49, Issue 10

EPA amended regulations governing the approval and promulgation of state plans for designated facilities and pollutants under CAA §§111(d) and 129; the amendments update and clarify the process by which approved plans are incorporated by reference.

EPA proposed amendments to regulations governing the approval and promulgation of state plans for designated facilities and pollutants under CAA §§111(d) and 129; the amendments would update and clarify the process by which approved plans are incorporated by reference.

SIP Approval: California (revisions to particulate matter emissions from open areas and wood burning appliances, and stationary source permitting requirements in the Imperial County air pollution control district).

FWS revised its regulations governing the ESA's prohibitions to threatened wildlife and plants; the revisions remove the prior default extension of most of the prohibitions for activities involving endangered species to threatened species.

FWS proposed to remove the running buffalo clover from the list of endangered and threatened plants; a review of the best available scientific and commercial information indicates that the species no longer meets the definition of endangered or threatened under the ESA due to recovery.